Editing Korea (section)

===Korean War===
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The Korean War broke out when Soviet-backed North Korea invaded South Korea, though neither side gained much territory as a result. The Korean Peninsula remained divided, the [[Korean Demilitarized Zone]] being the ''de facto'' border between the two states.

In June 1950 North Korea invaded the South, using Soviet tanks and weaponry. During the [[Korean War]] (1950–53) more than 1.2 million people died and the three years of fighting throughout the nation effectively destroyed most cities.<ref>{{Citation | first1 = Bethany | last1 = Lacina | first2 = Nils Petter | last2 = Gleditsch | url = http://www.bethanylacina.com/LacinaGleditsch_newdata.pdf | title = Monitoring Trends in Global Combat: A New Dataset of Battle Deaths | journal = European Journal of Population | year = 2005 | volume = 21 | issue = 2–3 | pages = 145–166 | doi = 10.1007/s10680-005-6851-6 | s2cid = 14344770 | access-date = 19 June 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141006175909/http://www.bethanylacina.com/LacinaGleditsch_newdata.pdf | archive-date = 6 October 2014 | url-status = usurped}}</ref> The war ended with an [[Korean Armistice Agreement|armistice agreement]] at approximately the [[Military Demarcation Line]], but the two governments are officially still at war.